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Gunman kills 4, including 2 deputies, North Carolina sheriff says
The shooter killed two people inside a home in Boone, N.C., then killed two Watauga County Sheriffâs Office deputies sent to check on them, authorities say.
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In this image taken from video Wednesday, law enforcement officers work the scene of a fatal shooting outside a home in Boone N.C. Two deputies were killed and three other people including a suspected gunman were found dead after the lengthy standoff in North Carolina, a sheriff s office said Thursday. [ AP ]
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BOONE, N.C. â Two deputies were killed and three other people including a suspected gunman were found dead after a lengthy standoff in North Carolina, a sheriffâs office said Thursday.
North-carolinaUnited-statesAppalachian-state-universityTennesseeJohnson-cityWatauga-countyRyan-landerDeputy-logan-foxLen-hagamanClarence-wilsonRoy-cooperChris-wardAuthorities said Barnes was suspected in the fatal shootings of two deputies who had been dispatched to the home Wednesday. Sgt. Chris Ward died at a hospital in Johnson City, Tennessee, after Wednesday s shooting while K-9 Officer Logan Fox died at the scene, the sheriff’s office said.
Watauga County Sheriff Len Hagaman said family members had expressed concerns about the large number of weapons in Barnes possession. The sheriff added that he believed Barnes may have been contemplating an attack in public.
“There was familial concern that he might try to do something and he had evidently a fairly large cache of weapons and he was at the house, which we didn’t think he would be,” the sheriff said.
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